Thriving Virtual Teams

Being able to Navigate, Innovate and Regenerate in Uncertainty and Complexity

How do I keep myself and my team together and on track, beyond the tips and tricks of working online?
How can we as a team seize the opportunities to navigate and innovate in uncertainty and increasingly complex environments?
How can I really support and regenerate my own WellBeing and that of my team members in a sustainable way?

With uncertainty skyrocketing and ‘business as usual’ no longer an option, now more than ever there is a need to expand our awareness and invest in the human factor. Through fostering a culture that brings out human potential, innovative abilities and resilience of teams as a whole, new ways of working will emerge. By also practicing a deeper listening for what the future asks of us, better outcomes will be accessed and deeper connections forged. 

Working in virtual or hybrid settings is here to stay. Research shows that people who work from home run a distinct risk of being less expressed in their potential. Mastering the ins and outs of working online is only part of the game. Investing in how to grow into a full potential team will give any leader and organization a tangible edge in performance and results.

Every Leader is a Team Member and every Team Member is a Leader.
In this dance between the Individual and the Collective things can move, shift and transform

Who we are

We are passionate professionals that support leaders, teams and organizations in the for-profit, non-profit and humanitarian arena in finding more sustainable and sustaining ways of working. We believe it is possible not just to survive, but to sustainably thrive in a changing world, also in a hybrid and online setting. 

Organizations are living systems. We work on freeing human potential, culture change and strategy initiatives, with special attention on the interplay between the individual and the collective. Through working with the deeper layers and dynamics and harnessing more supportive mindsets, we create conditions for empowered leadership, innovation and transformation

To show up as a trusted partner on your journey is our commitment.

THRIVING VIRTUAL TEAMS is initiated by Annelieke Verkerk and Harmen van Dijk

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8 en 14 april 2022: Opstellingsworkshops Duurzame Vraagstukken 

Waarom?

Duurzaamheid is allang geen buzz-word meer. Het is een noodzakelijk pad dat ieder van ons te bewandelen heeft, willen we op langere termijn kwaliteit van leven houden. Als genoeg mensen daadwerkelijk hun steentje bijdragen thuis, op het werk en in de maatschappij, kunnen we het verschil maken.

De Sustainable Development Goals en initiatieven als ‘100 Months to Change’ dragen bij aan het creëren van momentum voor bedrijven en organisaties om hun doelen, processen, onderlinge samenwerking en acties tegen het licht te houden. Zodat zij betekenisvolle stappen met impact kunnen zetten op het gebied van duurzaamheid, klimaatadaptatie, circulaire economie of biodiversiteit en helder krijgen aan welke knoppen ze kunnen draaien.

Hiervoor zetten wij graag onze expertise en ervaring met veranderprocessen in.

Wat?

Waar wil je naar toe als het gaat om duurzamer werken? Dat is een vraag over doelen en ambities om met je bedrijf of organisatie daadwerkelijk bij te dragen aan duurzaamheid in al haar aspecten. En kun je dat omzetten in actie? Waar loop je tegen aan en wat houd je tegen? Dat is een vraag naar de onderstroom en gaat over patronen en andere minder zichtbare factoren die het bereiken van die doelen of ambities bevorderen of belemmeren.

Hoe?

Opstellingen zijn een snelle en effectieve methode om helder te krijgen wat er speelt in de onderstroom en wat een kansrijke richting, benadering of volgende stap kan zijn. Waar stokt het en hoe creëer je beweging? Of het nu gaat om vragen over koers, samenwerking, het verkennen van het krachtenveld, het testen van scenario’s of de neuzen dezelfde kant op krijgen, opstellingen maken de aangrijpingspunten voor duurzame verandering zichtbaar. Dat kan live of online. In beide gevallen maken we een veld waarin met behulp van elementen en/of representanten de dynamieken die van belang zijn, zichtbaar worden gemaakt.

Voor wie?

Deze workshops zijn voor wie werkt voor of met bedrijven, overheden, andere organisaties of maatschappelijke initiatieven en stappen wil zetten om duurzamer werken in de eigen organisatie of met andere stakeholders daadwerkelijk verder te brengen.

Wie zijn wij?
Wij, Annelieke Verkerk en Nicole van der Ouw (www.creatiefverandermanagement.nl) zijn experts in verandertrajecten, systemisch werken en potentieel ontwikkeling. Wij ondersteunen leiders, bedrijven, overheden en andere organisaties met vraagstukken op het terrein van (o.a.) duurzaamheid, verandermanagement, samenwerking en bevrijding van potentieel. Het begeleiden van opstellingen met maatschappelijke relevantie, al dan niet ingebed in een breder verandertraject, is een van onze speerpunten.

Wanneer en waar?

8 april in de ochtend in Groningen
14 april in de middag (locatie volgt)

De tijd van ‘veel geblaat en weinig wol’ is voorbij. Ben je nieuwsgierig en heb je een vraag die jij of jouw bedrijf/organisatie middels een opstelling zou willen verkennen? Of wil je deelnemen als representant?

Opgeven kan via: 0629296508 (Annelieke Verkerk) of mail naar             
anneliekeverkerk@gmail.com

ICF-CCE APPROVED FULL POTENTIAL TEAM COACHING TRAINING for coaches, leaders and other change agents, interested in a proven method to transform team performance and bring the inherent human potential of any team to life. You will learn how to anchor the 5 essential team measures and use them to open up transformational conversations that deepen the relationships and promote seamless collaborations.This training is being facilitated on behalf of the Being at Full Potential Academy. Dates to be announced.

On demand: WEBINAR SERIES ON NAVIGATING, INNOVATING and REGENERATING in uncertain and complex times

Thriving Teams – NAVIGATING in uncertain and complex times:

  • Investing in Trust
  • Showing up Authentically
  • The Power of Openness, Courage and Vulnerability

Thriving Teams – INNOVATING in uncertain and complex times:

  • Investing in Intuitive and Sensing Abilities
  • Bringing in Experimentation and Play
  • The Power of Curiosity and Deep Listening

Thriving Teams – REGENERATING in uncertain and complex times:

  • Investing in WellBeing
  • Having Honest and Generative Conversations
  • The Power of Reflecting on Self & Recurring Patterns

On demand: WEBINAR SERIES ON 5 FULL POTENTIAL TEAM MEASURES:

  • Unconditional Dependability: a team’s ability to rely on each other, to follow through on commitments, set the right expectations and communicate proactively
  • Opportunity Seeking: a team’s ability to practice the 3rd way, to re-frame situations, problems and options and find the win-wins
  • Supporting each other to Shine: a team’s ability to to see people in their wholemess / wholeness and create responsibilities based on that
  • Investing in Shared Team Standards of Being: a team’s ability to create sustained conditions for trust, respect, openness to new ideas and new thinking
  • Collectively Embodying a Meaningful Purpose: a team’s ability to rely on each other, to follow through on commitments, set the right expectations and communicate proactively

When you know how to trust, you know how to live (J. W. von Goethe)

what we offer

FOR TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS:

  • Customized team coaching – online, hybrid and live – where we will take your team on a journey that is certain to open up more human potential, bring in more play and ease in getting results and strengthen the relational fabric of the team 
  • Customized team workshops – online, hybrid and live – on empowered leadership, innovation, system dynamics and other topics that contribute to smooth collaboration and results
  • Systemic Team and Organisational Assessments and other systemic tools to get quick and effective insights in undercurrents, system dynamics and recurring patterns that serve or hinder
  • Human Potential Team and Organizational Assessments that measure untapped human potential (including measuring WellBeing vs. performance) and provide insights on access points to bring out more of a team’s or organization’s innate strengths
  • Systemic Work, Team, Organizational and Societal Constellations

FOR LEADERS AND CHANGE AGENTS:

  • Empowered Leadership Coaching
  • Workshops – online, hybrid and live – on leadership topics with special attention on the interplay between the individual and the collective
  • Webinars and webinar series on specific leadership topics such as investing in trust, showing up authentically, expanding mindsets and innovation, facilitating generative conversations, reflecting on patterns, etc.
  • Leadership circles, online and live
  • Professional Leadership Assessments that measure how much of your leadership potential is being utilized and provide tangible access points to harness more of your untapped potential
  • Family, Work, Career and Leadership Constellations 

QUESTIONS & CONTACT

systemic work and Constellations

Organizations are living systems. Where is the flow blocked and how to create movement again? If you have questions on the direction of your company, how to work more sustainably, scenario testing, team dynamics or collaboration, systemic work provides insight in the levers for sustainable change and helps you get to clarity on next steps.

Constellations are a quick and effective method to get insight in the undercurrents below the water line. These can be facilitated live or online. With the help of elements or resonance persons we make visible the dynamics that are at play. For individuals, organizations and societal issues.

Our new ways of working need to be sustaining and sustainable

Navigating

  • Investing in Trust
  • Authentically Showing Up 
  • The power of Openness, Courage & Vulnerability

Innovating

  • Investing in Intuitive and Sensing Abilities
  • Bringing in Experimentation and Play
  • The power of Curiosity & Deep Listening

Regenerating

  • Investing in WellBeing
  • Having Honest and Generative Conversations
  • The power of Reflecting on Self & Patterns

How to enhance Team collaboration & Performance?

Every Leader is a Team member and every Team member is a Leader. Who are you as a leader and as a team member and how are you actually showing up? The Human Potential development process consists of four areas that are equally important: BEING, RELATING, DOING and REFLECTING. By giving attention to all four areas you can bring the expression of your HUMAN POTENTIAL to another level, individually and as a team.

Who do you choose to be?  MINDSETS and ATTITUDES can be exercised like muscles. Investing in those is a worthwhile endeavor as it will powerfully influence how you show up as a leader and as a team. We help you identify what will further bring out your leadership and team potential. All in an easy, interactive and playful way, without shying away from the conversations that need to happen.

An organization is a living system. When appropriate, we also work with the team and organizational SYSTEM DYNAMICS that are at play. Bringing those undercurrents to the surface can lead to powerful paradigm shifts and healing of organizational trauma, thus freeing human potential and supporting real culture change.

Untapped human potential can be measured and developed. We can bring in innovative tools that MEASURE how much of your inherent human potential is expressed, individually, as a team or throughout your organization. That brings substance and tangibility into the work. We can also bring in systemic team tools that MAP and shed light on underlying dynamics and persistent patterns. Thus supporting you in moving through those so you can consciously start to embody a more sustaining and regenerative culture.

Be the change you wish to see in the world
(M. Gandhi)

In terms of empowering your team and yourself as a leader, re-visiting PURPOSE, individually and as a collective, might be one of the most meaningful actions you can take these days. How alive is it in you currently? Does it have the power to inspire and unite your team? We all need to feel purpose and connection in order to thrive, especially now.

An attitude of UNCONDITIONAL DEPENDABILITY and SUPPORTING EACH OTHER TO SHINE will also bring the expression of your human potential and that of your team to another level. In the workplace, embodying these attitudes does not always come naturally. But imagine what would become possible in teams and organizations if we would.

Consistently regenerating ourselves from a ‘problem mindset’ into an OPPORTUNITY SEEKING mindset is key in unleashing new levels of inventiveness in ourselves and the teams that we partake in, while also keeping the experience joyful and flowing. We will go into how to embody that as leaders and in teams, also in an online or hybrid team setting. Going beyond surviving into thriving is definitely the next area of opportunity. 

Disciplined investment in SHARED STANDARDS OF BEING and implementing certain PRACTICES will foster intrinsic WellBeing and have a direct effect on team spirit, collaboration and output. We will explore – individually and collectively – what concrete measures and levers will have the most impact to create a nurturing team environment for optimal collaboration, co-creation and performance. We will also go into best practices that can support you, your team and organization to spark new inspiration and counter the weariness of working online.

If you want to build a ship, awaken in the hearts of men and women a yearning for the sea
(A. de Saint-Exupéry)

PROJECTS & PARTNERSHIPS

We value working in partnership with our clients and colleagues. 

We partner with and are in service to a diverse array of clients in the for-profit, non-profit and humanitarian area. 

We also coach, train and mentor coaches, facilitators and other change agents

 

PARTNERSHIPS:

Annelieke Verkerk is a certified partner of TeamConnect, a powerful online systemic assessment tool for teams and organizations. A conversation on the assessment results will give you in-depth and accurate insights into the unconscious factors that make your team successful and effective teamconnect.global

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We are certified individual, team and organizational coaches. We co-create and facilitate Human Potential Individual, Team and Organizational Coaching Certification Trainings with the Being at Full Potential Academy and partner in various projects with beingatfullpotential.com

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We partner with the Global Mentoring Initiative in bringing new ways of working into the Humanitarian and International Development Cooperation domain gmentor.org

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Drawings and Visual Minutes courtesy of  Vanessa Jane Smith of craftingconnection.com who continues to infuse and enrich our work through her art and listening power.

Testimonials

On ONLINE facilitation by Harmen van Dijk and Annelieke Verkerk: “For sure you were able to create the safe Being space although all of us were in different places. It felt as if we were all in one room....What was helpful was slowing down, checking in, setting standards and taking time for what needed to be shared, even when it took more time than planned....I would never have thought this to be possible online.”
Team Training participant
On ONLINE facilitation by Annelieke Verkerk: "In a world where we feel isolated and perhaps stagnant Annelieke is a breath of fresh air. Even through the computer she managed to find a way to build beautiful relationships with myself, and my team. Coaching and development can sometimes feel not personal, or irrelevant, but every single minute with Annelieke is purposeful and spot on. A sign that Annelieke is an amazing leadership coach is that the work done with her extends beyond just the career--I found myself growing as a professional, AND as a human. I know that many others on my team felt the same way"
Team member with a large NGO in the Education sector
On Annelieke Verkerk: “Annelieke is a special lady with a warm heart. The two day training was amazing! Our heartfelt thanks for this. You brought our team further on the road towards thinking exponentially. With every team member you touched a chord that will help them to further develop in their work and as a person, and that makes you so special.”
Founder and CEO of a company in the Health industry
On Annelieke Verkerk: Ms Verkerk works in a refreshingly no-nonsense approach with tact and integrity. Given her background as a highly placed civil servant she knows and understands the challenges and opportunities of working within a large organisation with politically charged dossiers and high demands. I found Ms Verkerk to be a coach who does not shy away from content or personal issues that frame ones professional effectivity. She was a coach and a trusted soundingboard who helped me get more insight into myself and through that my professional path.
Policymaker Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On Harmen van Dijk: "Harmen is a professional with a highly intuitive and flexible approach to group team dynamics, who created a superb co-facilitation structure for the team dynamics workshop at our company."
MT member Agro Food Retailer
On Harmen van Dijk: "With his ability to hold a warm and safe space, as well as his courage to follow his intuition and ask difficult questions, Harmen inspires confidence for the real conversations to unfold."
CEO Large Wholesaler in the Agro Food Business
On Harmen van Dijk: "Wow, we are really happy with Harmen. With his resolute, honest, non-judgmental and inspiring way of coaching he has helped us to bring our team back together again. He has also coached several colleagues in work and life issues. We can recommend anybody to deploy Harmen when a different way of looking is required or advisable."
Human Resources manager
”The assessments provide a framework to understand human development, to open conversations and to let people reach their own insights. It has given me the toolbox, inspiration and energy to move forward with this work and to bring it out into the world." "The Full Potential Team Facilitation process takes you through multiple levels of learning and tools for training teams. You also put it into practice during the training and therefore learn directly through experience. The course’s foundations rest on solid research and data, which participants then comprehend and consolidate through direct personal experience and creative exercises."
Team Training participants
On Annelieke Verkerk: “I love your Being presence, human factor and professionalism as a trainer and facilitator. Well done for not only taking us on a ride ourselves, but also constantly mirroring back how we can take clients on a ride in the same manner. Very useful this link between experience and training/practical application of the course content." "You created a superb learning environment."
Team training participants
"The Full Potential Team Facilitation Training is an excellent way to explore new ways of collaboration. It reveals that real change is not just a matter of doing but that something else is needed. Based on assignments and exercises we learned to create a safe space that is so desperately needed to get everybody on board to make the change. For me it was a very inspiring and stunning experience, that can be applied to any organization.”
Frank Schel, Practical Media
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Annelieke Verkerk

Annelieke Verkerk has a keen eye for Human Potential and the untapped potential of teams and organizations. She is passionate about furthering leadership, team collaboration and sustainable culture change. Through enhancing physical, emotional, mental and spiritual intelligence, awareness about the system dynamics that are at play and about one’s place and role in the greater scheme of things, clarity and purpose emerges. 15 years in staff and leadership positions with the University of Groningen, the Dutch Ministry of Finance and the Dutch Competition Authority , as well as 15+ years of consultancy, coaching and training education and experience, working with leaders, politicians, teams and organizations. Created programs on leadership, system dynamics and constellation work, team- and organizational development and facilitated women’s leadership circles. Initiated and co-created the Full Potential Team Coaching Certification Training. Loves dancing, also with the paradoxes of life.

Harmen van Dijk

Harmen van Dijk believes in focusing on Human Potential development for transformation in organizations as well as the power of rituals, nature and symbolism to support transformational conversations and Doing from Being. A first career as a Dutch diplomat in Latin America and Europe for 10+ years, he has meanwhile worked as a coach, trainer and facilitator for 5+ years with individuals, groups and teams. Initiated and co-created various pioneering programs on organizational transformation, coaching, men’s work and self-leadership, a.o. in nature.
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